there is a big difference between “making space for others” and “lazy rationalisation of your unwillingness to engage”.
[…] being more concerned with not fucking up than with doing good is about your personal purity, not about the effect you have on the world, and very few people have the resources to maintain this illusion of purity for themselves. I hear so many rationalisations for staying within your comfort zone under the guise of “solidarity” and I have to say that they all strike me as utterly self-indulgent and self-deceiving. push yourself or don’t, but don’t try and recast your every action or inaction as anti-oppressive.
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I also think it’s important that...everyone can be anti-oppressive with every
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Agreed. So important because being an ally isn’t static, it’s a lifelong commitment and it’s fucking complicated.
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OBVIOUSLY this isn’t all true 100% of the time, every time. But whoa.
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Shit. I think I’ve done some of these things too. Yeah… It’s inspiring, though, to see ways I can improve.
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so important. I definitely am guilty
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